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Welcome to Lewis who joins the group for a Carnegie-funded summer project using DFT to study ambiphilic silane reactivity. Also welcome to Alice, who joins both our group and Dr Liam Donnelly’s group as a visiting student from France to develop new nitrogen-insertion skeletal editing methodologies.
In collaboration with Michael Ingleson, we have recently published a new paper in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. using boron trifluoride etherate and various nucleophiles to access bicyclic boronates. This work started during my PDRA with Mike, and Laura did an excellent job with it! I enjoyed probing the mechanism of this reaction and I look…
❗ PhD Opportunity Available ❗ In collaboration with Liam Donnelly we have a competition funded PhD studentship available focused on developing nitrogen insertion reactions using automation and machine learning. This 3.5-year studentship at Heriot-Watt University will combine both traditional synthetic chemistry with high-throughput experimentation and machine learning to discover new skeletal editing reactions. See the…
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